Monthly Archives: November 2005

4,000 cups is a lot of waste

Posted on 2005-11-28 by Dan Siemon

This picture is from an article that was in the UWO Gazette a couple of weeks ago. Apparently people at UWO go through about 4000 paper coffee cups a day.

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Free (as in speech) hardware?

Posted on 2005-11-22 by Dan Siemon

Everyone has heard of free software. How about free hardware? Check out Ronja. Ronja is a free technology project of reliable optical data link with current range 1.4km and current communication speed 10Mbps full duplex. GPL licensed hardware designs. Awesome.

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Software as speech

Posted on 2005-11-19 by Dan Siemon

Well, my sense of software is that it’s something that is both speech and a device, depending on how you define it. When you talk about software as speech, many good things tend to flow from that. When you use … Continue reading →

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Tuition referendum

Posted on 2005-11-17 by Dan Siemon

So the Canadian Federation of Students is holding referenda at Universities in Ontario asking if students believe tuition fees should continue to be frozen. Students at UofT have already voted 98% in favour. The vote at Western happens today. Asking … Continue reading →

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Linux as a species

Posted on 2005-11-11 by Dan Siemon

Doc Searls (Linux Journal guy) has offered up another explanation of the Linux kernel. This explanation is a extension of the “Linux is the trees” analogy which has been discussed in past Linux Journal issues. I found the link to … Continue reading →

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